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enMon, 19 Mar 2018 14:53:53 GMTMon, 19 Mar 2018 14:53:53 GMTRev937225Episode 16: Windows Phone Apps with Ambassador Lance McCarthyWe talk with Nokia Ambassador Lance McCarthy about Windows app development. An update to Windows Phone 8.1. We look back to c for programming fundamentals, and look forward to C# 6.

Lumia Imaging SDK, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered applications with a total of over 100 million downloads and now has support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal Windows Platform) to target smartphones, tablets and computers running Windows 10. In addition to Windows 10, development for both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platforms continues to be supported. The SDK is implemented as Windows Runtime Component, allowing its APIs to be called from applications written in C#, C++, JavaScript and Visual Basic. To get started with Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 development for Windows 10, install the SDK using NuGet Package Manager straight in Visual Studio or download the package from nuget.org

The key feature introduced in Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 is support for GPU based image processing through Direct2D. For most applications, this leads to significant performance improvement compared to the same application implemented with an earlier CPU-only version of the SDK. Where possible, exact implementation details of GPU support have been abstracted away from the API so that majority of the developers don’t need to be aware of what’s happening under the hood.

Another focus area in the 3.0 release is interoperability with other Windows 10 APIs: rendering to SwapChainPanel is supported, and Direct3DSurface, SoftwareBitmap and WriteableBitmap can be used both as image sources as well as rendering targets. With its high abstraction level and wide range of features, Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 complements other Windows imaging APIs like Win2D and Windows Imaging Component (WIC).

Lumia Imaging SDK, now as version 3.0, makes technologies that Microsoft uses in its own imaging apps available to third-party developers. The features provide the ability to decode and encode images, apply effects, blend, crop, rotate, and resize. It gives developers easy access to world-class imaging algorithms and effortless GPU utlilization (utilizing Direct2D under the hood). It also allows the developers to extend the functionality for custom scenarios.

Note: Despite the name, the Lumia Imaging SDK actually works on any Windows 10 or Windows 10 Mobile device, as well as on any Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1 device.

The Lumia Imaging SDK is a rich set of image and video frame processing tools for developers to provide amazing visual experiences in their apps. It provides more than 60 pre-made effects, many of which can be applied without decoding the whole image. That means that you can apply effects to high-resolution images without worrying about your memory budget. You can add an effect to your existing project with just a few lines of C#. The library can also be called from C++ code. The effects can be chained to create the exact effect you're looking for.

Sample projects, alternatively, you can try out and quickly see the library in action.

Tip: Check out our open source project Lumia Imaging SDK Extras in GitHub. It will make it even easier for the developer to build amazing imaging apps. The source code project can be found in Lumia Imaging SDK Extras Git repository .

New in SDK 3.0

GPU image processing - The performance has been improved by utilizing the GPU.

Lumia imaging SDK has been updated with GPU capabilities and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support. The development was focused on enabling these two scenarios with other improvements on the side.

The Lumia Imaging SDK version 3.0 is not directly backward compatible with earlier versions. The main difference is that we have changed the way the image processing graph is organized. We have moved away from the concept of filters; all filters are now instead effects. For information about how to upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0, see How to upgrade guide.

Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 is split into three NuGets. You always install only one, depending on the platform you are targeting. For example, if you want to develop for the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP), you should use Lumia Imaging SDK UWP. For Windows Phone 8.1 projects, use Lumia Imaging SDK Win81. For Universal Windows Platform (UWP) JavaScript projects use Lumia Imaging SDK Javascript

With SDK version 3.0, the Silverlight application framework is no longer supported. For Windows Phone 8.0 development, use Lumia Imaging SDK 2.0 that is available in NuGet.org.

New classes and Windows 10 interoperability

In Windows 10, new classes SoftwareBitmap and Direct3DSurface have been added to make it easier to work with images. We have added an image source and a renderer class for each of them. This allows the application to interact with the new Windows 10 types in a direct and efficient way.

New building block interfaces such as IImageProvider2 and IImageConsumer2 have also been added. These interfaces improve and extend the image provider model that the Imaging SDK exposes; however, the developers can continue using IImageProvider and IImageConsumer when not implementing custom types. For more information, see Custom sources, effects and effect groups.

Hardware accelerated effects

The effects in the list below are capable of being rendered by GPU, which vastly improves the rendering time.

Lumia Imaging SDK projects

Contents

1. Quick start

Quick Start is a sample project accompanying the tutorial that helps to get your first app that utilizes the Lumia Imaging SDK up and running. This sample implements the following basic tasks: picking an image from the camera roll, applying an effect to it, and processing the filtered image to be rendered and saved as a full resolution JPEG.

2. Sample projects

Samples

Edit ShowcaseEdit Showcase is an example app that demonstrates the use of effects on still images. The photo is processed with the predefined effects. In addition, custom controls are implemented for manipulating the effect properties in real time. The processed image can be saved in the JPEG format into the camera roll.

Video EffectVideo Effect sample is an example app that demonstrates the capabilities and performance of the Lumia Imaging SDK by allowing the user to preview and apply a number of real-time effects to camera preview. The effects are applied to the stream received from the camera and shown in the viewfinder. The effects can be changed using the buttons in the application bar. This example app supports recording and capturing of videos and photos.

Lumia Imaging SDK and Win2D DemoLumia Imaging SDK and Win2D Demo is an example app that demonstrates the use of the Lumia Imaging SDK together with the Win2D API.

Image SequencerImage Sequencer is an example app that demonstrates the use of the Image Aligner and GIF Renderer APIs for creating Cinemagraph-style animations in the animated GIF format. There are also some example image sequences that can be used as a basis for the alignment and animation.

Custom Effect SampleCustom Effect sample demonstrates how to create Custom Effects to do image manipulation both on the CPU and the GPU.

3. Lumia Imaging SDK Extras

This repository contains extra functionality and sample code for the Lumia Imaging SDK.

Lumia Imaging SDK 3 is finally out. The long awaited SDK that was blocking some devs from porting their Windows 8.1 apps to Windows 10 UWP is now available with great new performance improvements and new features, but also some breaking changes. Highlights of the release are definitely Windows 10 support and GPU image processing that brings the performance improvements, but many more changes were squeezed in - you can find more details in the documentation.

Silverlight apps are no longer supported though so if you want the latest magic from this SDK, porting to WinRT is necessary. If you're just migrating from v2 to v3, there's a great document for that called (believe it or not :)) How to upgrade from Lumia Imaging SDK 2.0 to 3.0. One thing that you'll notice right away is that filters are no longer called filters, but effects, but a more important (and breaking) change is that there is no FilterEffect. This means that instead of chaining the filters by setting the IFilters array of FilterEffect

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Property descriptions

Imaging SDK 3 also brings a new interface called IPropertyDescriptions implemented by effects that gives you information about the minimum, maximum and default values of an effect property at runtime. It's super useful when you want to use sliders to change property values, which is quite often with range effects, but don't want to hardcode the value. Let's create a quick demo to see how this works.

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Conclusion

It's amazing to see Lumia Imaging SDK going forward. With Windows 10 support, performance improvements and even new features, there's no better way to manipulate images in Windows 10 apps. For range effects, PropertyDescriptions should be used to detect minimum, maximum and default effect values.

I remember when I built my Photo Light app, a photo editor for Windows Phone 7. There were no libraries like this one at the time, I pretty much had to do everything myself, pixel by pixel, taking care of memory, performance... Nowadays, all we need is Lumia Imaging SDK! :)

In my previous blog post about PropertyDescriptions in Lumia Imaging SDK 3 I wrote some code for rendering effect results in real-time that wasn't really that good and resulted in performance issues. To be fair, the blog post was about using PropertyDescriptions so rendering was used only for a more complete demo, but as I was reading the documentation I noticed a couple of ways to improve the code I wrote.

In that code, whenever the slider was moved to change the strength of the blur effect, I would create a new WriteableBitmapRenderer to render the result.

This is bad resource management - creating a new renderer has a performance cost so it should actually be kept alive and only disposed when it's no longer needed.

Doing some performance analysis proved that this code was bad and what happened when I loaded an image (3072x1728 pixels) and moved the blur effect slider around.

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Conclusion

Using WriteableBitmapRenderers and WriteableBitmapsshould be avoided as much as possible and renderers should not really be recreated all the time for real-time rendering as that causes serious performance issues. Instead, renderers should be kept alive and reused by the app if needed again. When it comes to interactive/real-time rendering, using a SwapChainPanelRenderer is recommended, and it should live as long as SwapChainPanel lives.

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Lumia-Imaging-SDK-v3-No-its-not-just-for-phonesThis week, surprisingly enough, we're going to be doing a &quot;Holly Cow, that was an awesome Hardware Event last week!&quot; theme, focusing on related SDK's, projects and such. I'm sure you've already heard all about it, but incase not, check out this post, A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft and catch the entire event on-demand, Windows 10 Devices Today, we're going to highlight a new Imaging SDK version, one that given the name you might think is for phones only, but it's not! First Clint Rutkas, yes, that Clint, introduces us it in a recent post. Then we detail what's new, the cool Samples Repo and finally two posts Igor Ralic on upgrading to it. Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 now available with UWP supportLumia Imaging SDK, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered applications with a total of over 100 million downloads and now has support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal Windows Platform) to target smartphones, tablets and computers running Windows 10. In addition to Windows 10, development for both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platforms continues to be supported. The SDK is implemented as Windows Runtime Component, allowing its APIs to be called from applications written in C#, C&#43;&#43;, JavaScript and Visual Basic. To get started with Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 development for Windows 10, install the SDK using NuGet Package Manager straight in Visual Studio or download the package from nuget.org The key feature introduced in Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 is support for GPU based image processing through Direct2D. For most applications, this leads to significant performance improvement compared to the same application implemented with an earlier CPU-only version of the SDK. Where possible, exact implementation details of GPU support have been abstracted away from the API so that majority of the developers don’t need to be aware of https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Lumia-Imaging-SDK-v3-No-its-not-just-for-phones
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:00:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Lumia-Imaging-SDK-v3-No-its-not-just-for-phonesGreg DuncanGreg Duncan0https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Lumia-Imaging-SDK-v3-No-its-not-just-for-phones/RSSCoding4FunNokiaimaginglumiaPing 231: Nokia 215, Water from p**p, SmartBelt, Compute Stick, SlingTVMark and Rick are back - covering the news items MSFTies are Ping'in each other about after a month long hiatus. We cover your comments from last time, dive into some stories around sanitation, CES2015, streaming services and more. To be specific:

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]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-Help-Your-Business-Benefit-with-Premier-Mission-Critical-SupportLex Thomas welcomes back Tony Wyatt to the show as they discuss a new offering from Microsoft Services – Premier Mission Critical Support. Tune in as they describe what this support service is and learn how your business can benefit from it. *BONUS! Be sure to check out our quick demo comparing the Surface 2 and the Nokia Lumia 2520. Two great devices going head to head for 4G LTE tablet supremacy! [0:44] What is Premier Mission Critical (PMC)? [2:07] How do customers know if PMC is right for them?[3:40] How do customers get started?[6:58] How does a PMC incident differ than a standard incident?[9:06] DEMO: Surface 2 with 4G LTE[13:28] DEMO: Nokia Lumia 2520 with 4G LTELearn more about Premier Mission Critical Support Send your comments or questions to the &quot;Taste of Premier&quot; Podcast show! Become a Fan @ Facebook.com/PremierSupport Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes, Windows Phone Podcast Marketplace or RSS __________________________ __________________________ Websites &amp; Blogs: Microsoft Services Premier SupportVideos: Taste of Premier: How Windows Azure can Benefit Your BusinessTaste of Premier: Building More Secure Applications with the Help of the Microsoft Security Development LifecycleTaste of Premier: Microsoft Surface 2 PreviewTaste of Premier: Favorite New Features in Windows 8.1Taste of Premier: An Inside Look at the New Devices and Services Strategy at MicrosoftTaste of Premier: Customer Stories - How Microsoft Premier Services helped &quot;Save the Day&quot; for the NYPDTaste of Premier: Directory Consolidation with Windows Azure Active Directory Migration ServicesTaste of Premier: Operational Readiness for Office 365 DeploymentsTaste of Premier: Windows Devices and Accessories SuperShow!Taste of Premier: How to Take Advantage of New Repeatable IP Service1086https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-Help-Your-Business-Benefit-with-Premier-Mission-Critical-Support
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:55:04 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-Help-Your-Business-Benefit-with-Premier-Mission-Critical-SupportChrisCaldwell, Lex ThomasChrisCaldwell, Lex Thomas1https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-Help-Your-Business-Benefit-with-Premier-Mission-Critical-Support/RSSMicrosoft SolutionsMicrosoft SurfaceNokiaSupportSurfaceTech SupportPing 215: Kinect, Lumia Photography, Beer on tap, CEOs, FlightSims and Comic-ConHey everybody! Is Mark back yet? Maybe we should try to automate this publishing thing to stay on schedule. What the heck, it's Mark's vacation time, so Simon May and I cover off this episode in the studio.

Some of the things that Microsofties are pinging each other about recently include the following:

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-215-Kinect-Lumia-Photography-Beer-on-tap-CEOs-FlightSims-and-Comic-ConHey everybody! Is Mark back yet? Maybe we should try to automate this publishing thing to stay on schedule. What the heck, it's Mark's vacation time, so Simon May and I cover off this episode in the studio. Some of the things that Microsofties are pinging each other about recently include the following: [03:07] #ICreatedThis: Interactive Photographic Installation [03:59] Your 100 greatest Lumia Photography tips (part 2) [06:28] Synek - Any Beer Tapped Fresh On Your Counter [09:22] A letter from Satya [12:21] Microsoft Flight Simulator revived! [13:22] xBox at San Diego Comic-Con Question of the week! What would be an epic battle between two comic book charaters you would like to see? Chat with us throughout the week using #PingShow on Twitter Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/ThePingShow @Simonster@RicksterCDN 1030https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-215-Kinect-Lumia-Photography-Beer-on-tap-CEOs-FlightSims-and-Comic-Con
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Some of the things that Microsofties are pinging each other about recently include the following:

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-214-Bing-and-Twitter-encryption-Nokia-635-Free-Money-Cortana-world-cup-skilz-and-xBox-updatesHey everybody! Despite some confusion on publishing responsibilities - this week we're back in the studio for this episode of PING! Some of the things that Microsofties are pinging each other about recently include the following: [04:51] Bing's latest round of new Twitter-related search features [06:53] Outlook.com and OneDrive adds new Encryption capabilities [08:34] Nokia 635 announced on T-Mobil [10:30] Nokia GiftVoucher app for select Nokia users [11:21] Cortana World Cup Prediction skilz [14:10] xBox.com website update and gamer profile page update [15:42] Sunset Overdrive exclusive title - deeper look Question of the week! What apps would you guy with that Nokia $25 voucher? Chat with us throughout the week using #PingShow on Twitter Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/ThePingShow @MarkDeFalco @RicksterCDN 1125https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-214-Bing-and-Twitter-encryption-Nokia-635-Free-Money-Cortana-world-cup-skilz-and-xBox-updates
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]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-206-Rick-is-Back-Nokia-is-here-Funding-for-OpenSSL-Creating-the-Cleanroom-and-more-Peggle-Welcome Rick back to Ping! We're back for another week, sharing the stories making the rounds here in Redmond. [07:58] The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date [10:30] Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL [13:31] Bing in the Classroom [16:00] Ever Wonder Who Invented the Cleanroom? [18:50] Peggle 2's new add-on Peggle Master arrives today for $1.99 | Ryse gets three maps in 'Duel of Fates' DLC [21:30] Question of the week! What kind of technology would you like to see in the modern classroom? Chat with us throughout the week using #PingShow on Twitter @MarkDeFalco @RicksterCDN 1388https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-206-Rick-is-Back-Nokia-is-here-Funding-for-OpenSSL-Creating-the-Cleanroom-and-more-Peggle-
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Today [November 13th, 2013] at Slush 2013, one of the top start-up conferences in the world, Nokia announced the latest version of its Imaging SDK (v1.0) to give Windows Phone developers the tools they need to create sophisticated new imaging apps for Nokia Lumia smartphones.

“Based on the core technology that we have in our own imaging apps, such as Nokia Camera and Creative Studio, the Nokia Imaging SDK gives developers access to filters, effects and on-screen rendering options that are unlike any other library on Windows Phone,” says Samuli Hänninen, vice president of software program management for Nokia’s Smart Devices business.

A boatload of new features and functionality

The Imaging SDK is available exclusively for Windows Phone developers. It includes more than 50 built-in filters such as Sepia, Black & White, Mirror, Tones, and Chromakey, which enables “green screen” magic to come to life so a developer can provide a background to render objects in.

Need more filters? With the new SDK release, developers can now create their own custom filters and add previously unseen effects to their apps.

Other effects include arbitrary cropping regions, free rotate, and resizing images to a desired file size (such as for social media sharing).

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“After a successful beta, we’re confident that this release will be well received. We’ve taken into account a lot of the feedback and have made the SDK even better for developers,” says Sami.

With the Nokia Imaging SDK, you have access to a powerful library of exciting image manipulation tools, which makes creating the next generation of imaging apps for Windows Phone 8 devices quicker and easier. Designed from the ground up with performance and a low memory footprint in mind, the library's functions don't put a strain on the user's device, which makes editing high resolution images swift and engaging. In fact, the technology behind the Nokia Imaging SDK is well proven, as Nokia uses it to create its own imaging applications, such as Creative Studio.

The following features are included in the 1.0 release of the Nokia Imaging SDK:

Updated, easy to use APIThe Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 delivers a WinPRT library, which has been updated to better follow Win RT conventions. The API is available from both managed (C# and VB) and native (C++) code, is really simple to use, and comes with a range of intuitive classes and methods.

Over 50 filters, effects, and enhancementsThe library comes packed with effects, filters, and enhancements for you to use; from the simple, such as auto-enhance, frame, and brightness to those with advanced capabilities such as adjusting RGB levels, hue, and saturation.New filters in 1.0 include Chromakey which enables “green screen” magic, compositing images from background and cutoffs.

Roll your ownWith the new SDK release, it is now possible to create completely custom filters for your own unique effects.

Crop, resize, rotate, and undoCropping, rotating, and resizing is supported; you can now crop and rotate in one step with the Reframing API. What’s more you can take advantage of the built-in unlimited undo functionality.

Use the camera as a sourceUse the Camera Helper API for easier access to camera functionality.

CompatibilityNokia Imaging SDK is designed to support Windows Phone 8 apps.

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Licensing

The Nokia Imaging SDK and library are available free of charge.

You can use the library for any apps published in Windows Phone Store for Nokia Lumia smartphones and, if desired, other Windows Phone 8 devices.

The Nokia Imaging SDK, now as 1.0 version, makes some of the technologies that Nokia uses in its own imaging applications available to developers. It is an efficient library for manipulating image data captured and stored by mobile devices. The features include decoding and encoding JPEG images, applying filters and effects, blending, cropping, rotating and resizing, with customization and unlimited undo.

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The Nokia Imaging SDK is easy to use: you can add a filter to your existing project with just a few lines of C#. The library can also be called from C++ code. The filters can be chained to create the exact effect you are looking for.

Graduated from beta – new in SDK 1.0

We ran a successful beta phase, with the Future Capture competition resulting in some very cool stuff done with the Imaging SDK, and we received valuable feedback. Now, as a result of that feedback, we implemented the most requested features – changing filter parameters dynamically, implementing your own filters, as well as amending features such as support for a Chroma Key filter.

To support the new features and to fully align with WinRT conventions, we had to change the API, which means that apps written for the beta will need to be migrated over if one wants to use the new release. This should be relatively straightforward, and developers can keep using the beta if it works for them. We do recommend migrating to the new release, though, since it is future proof and more feature-rich. To help you with migration, we have put together a how to upgrade guide presenting the key differences between the Beta and 1.0. The Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 can be installed via Visual Studio NuGet package manager. It is also possible to revert to the Previous version of the SDK.

Free, powerful, from a company who knows Imaging and did I already say free? This is just in time to help you create the perfect holiday pictures, all it needs is a little you!

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/A-new-v1-power-tool-for-your-Windows-Phone-Image-tasks-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK-10In July we highlighted the the beta of the Nokia Imagine SDK, Imaging images with the Nokia Imaging SDK. This past week the v1 SDK was released, which makes this is a good time to take another look at it... Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0: Power tools for Windows Phone developersToday [November 13th, 2013] at Slush 2013, one of the top start-up conferences in the world, Nokia announced the latest version of its Imaging SDK (v1.0) to give Windows Phone developers the tools they need to create sophisticated new imaging apps for Nokia Lumia smartphones.“Based on the core technology that we have in our own imaging apps, such as Nokia Camera and Creative Studio, the Nokia Imaging SDK gives developers access to filters, effects and on-screen rendering options that are unlike any other library on Windows Phone,” says Samuli Hänninen, vice president of software program management for Nokia’s Smart Devices business. A boatload of new features and functionalityThe Imaging SDK is available exclusively for Windows Phone developers. It includes more than 50 built-in filters such as Sepia, Black &amp; White, Mirror, Tones, and Chromakey, which enables “green screen” magic to come to life so a developer can provide a background to render objects in. Need more filters? With the new SDK release, developers can now create their own custom filters and add previously unseen effects to their apps. Other effects include arbitrary cropping regions, free rotate, and resizing images to a desired file size (such as for social media sharing). ... “After a successful beta, we’re confident that this release will be well received. We’ve taken into account a lot of the feedback and have made the SDK even better for developers,” says Sami. The Nokia Imaging SDK is free to download and available now from Nokia Developer and via NuGet. Windows Phone - Nokia Imaging SDK With the Nokia Imaging SDK, you have access to a powerful library of exciting image manipulation tools, which makes creating the next generatihttps://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/A-new-v1-power-tool-for-your-Windows-Phone-Image-tasks-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK-10
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:00:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/A-new-v1-power-tool-for-your-Windows-Phone-Image-tasks-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK-10Greg DuncanGreg Duncan0https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/A-new-v1-power-tool-for-your-Windows-Phone-Image-tasks-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK-10/RSSCoding4FunNokiaWindows PhonePing 187: Microsoft isn't stupid, NFL hits, Skype with your eyes, Xbox One date announcedThis week you definitely won't want to miss Mark & Laura waxing poetic over these stories and more:

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-187-Microsoft-isnt-stupid-NFL-hits-Skype-with-your-eyes-Xbox-One-date-announcedThis week you definitely won't want to miss Mark &amp; Laura waxing poetic over these stories and more: Microsoft ISN'T stupid! [04:04] Show some NFL love [11:05] Skype- now with eye contact [08:00] Xbox One is coming- date announced! [14:37] 1141https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-187-Microsoft-isnt-stupid-NFL-hits-Skype-with-your-eyes-Xbox-One-date-announced
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:11:33 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-187-Microsoft-isnt-stupid-NFL-hits-Skype-with-your-eyes-Xbox-One-date-announcedLaura Foy, Mark DeFalcoLaura Foy, Mark DeFalco9https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-187-Microsoft-isnt-stupid-NFL-hits-Skype-with-your-eyes-Xbox-One-date-announced/RSSNFLNokiaPingShowSkypeXboxXbox OneEdge Show 73 - Disaster Recovery using the Hyper-V Recovery ManagerAt [07:50] Symon Perriman meets with Prabu Rambadran, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the System Center team, to talk about new disaster recovery (DR) capabilities in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure. Prabu first defines DR and how it compares to high-availability, and the requirements for having multiple datacenters. Next he gives an overview of the Hyper-V Replica technology which was first introduced in Windows Server 2012, then how it has been enhanced in the R2 release. Prabu then describes the new Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HVRM) and how it integrates with Windows Server, System Center and Windows Azure. Next Prabu discusses how to configure the Hyper-V Recovery Manager through the Azure portal while covering the key scenarios of orchestrating disaster recovery when the primary datacenter is unavailable. The team then reviews how HVRM works and the scope of its replication capabilities. At [19:00] Prabu shows a demo of the Azure dashboard, how to configure HVRM to manage the primary and secondary datacenters, how to groups VMs and create startup dependencies, and the VMs' metadata that is provided by Virtual Machine Manager. Finally Prabu shows a demo of an unplanned failover at [24:00]. For more information visit the Hyper-V Recovery Manager homepage (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/recovery-manager/) and the Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery blog post from the In the Cloud blog (https://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/08/14/what-s-new-in-2012-r2-cloud-integrated-disaster-recovery.aspx).

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Edge/Edge-Show-73-Disaster-Recovery-using-the-Hyper-V-Recovery-ManagerAt [07:50] Symon Perriman meets with Prabu Rambadran, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the System Center team, to talk about new disaster recovery (DR) capabilities in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure. Prabu first defines DR and how it compares to high-availability, and the requirements for having multiple datacenters. Next he gives an overview of the Hyper-V Replica technology which was first introduced in Windows Server 2012, then how it has been enhanced in the R2 release. Prabu then describes the new Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HVRM) and how it integrates with Windows Server, System Center and Windows Azure. Next Prabu discusses how to configure the Hyper-V Recovery Manager through the Azure portal while covering the key scenarios of orchestrating disaster recovery when the primary datacenter is unavailable. The team then reviews how HVRM works and the scope of its replication capabilities. At [19:00] Prabu shows a demo of the Azure dashboard, how to configure HVRM to manage the primary and secondary datacenters, how to groups VMs and create startup dependencies, and the VMs' metadata that is provided by Virtual Machine Manager. Finally Prabu shows a demo of an unplanned failover at [24:00]. For more information visit the Hyper-V Recovery Manager homepage (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/recovery-manager/) and the Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery blog post from the In the Cloud blog (https://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/08/14/what-s-new-in-2012-r2-cloud-integrated-disaster-recovery.aspx). News: [00:40] Check out TechEd Australia Live this week! View the live stream and recordings on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2013[01:40] Microsoft announces that it has acquired Nokia's Devices and Services business: https://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/09/02/the-next-chapter-an-open-letter-from-steve-ballmer-and-stephen-elop.aspx 1684https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Edge/Edge-Show-73-Disaster-Recovery-using-the-Hyper-V-Recovery-Manager
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:09:50 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Edge/Edge-Show-73-Disaster-Recovery-using-the-Hyper-V-Recovery-ManagerSymon PerrimanSymon Perriman0https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Edge/Edge-Show-73-Disaster-Recovery-using-the-Hyper-V-Recovery-Manager/RSSAzureAzure Servicesdata replicationHyperVHyper-VNokiaPowerShellSQL ServersysinternalsTech.EdWindows AzureWindows PowerShellWindows ServerWindows 8High AvailabilitySystem Center 2012Windows Server 2012System Center Virtual Machine Manageredge-azureedge-privatecloudPing 183: Self publishing to Xbox One, 97 year old painter, apps on WP, Nokia 1020We asked Mark to join us again in studio to go over all the hot topics coming from Redmond and Microsoft around the world. Here's how that went down:

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-183-Self-publishing-to-Xbox-One-97-year-old-painter-apps-on-WP-Nokia-1020We asked Mark to join us again in studio to go over all the hot topics coming from Redmond and Microsoft around the world. Here's how that went down: Self publishing to Xbox One [06:06] 97 year old MS Painter [02:04] Give me my apps! [19:19] Nokia 1020 [12:02] 998https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-183-Self-publishing-to-Xbox-One-97-year-old-painter-apps-on-WP-Nokia-1020
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:35:07 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-183-Self-publishing-to-Xbox-One-97-year-old-painter-apps-on-WP-Nokia-1020Laura Foy, Mark DeFalcoLaura Foy, Mark DeFalco12https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-183-Self-publishing-to-Xbox-One-97-year-old-painter-apps-on-WP-Nokia-1020/RSSNokiaPingShowXboxMS PaintImaging images with the Nokia Imaging SDKLast week we highlighted a series of posts related to manipulating images, Becoming an Image Ninja with help from Dewald Esterhuizen. Today we continue with that theme, but move to the Windows Phone world and to an SDK that makes image tweaking much, much simpler...

Lets imagine a major (to say the least) Windows Phone hardware and software manufacture, who's know for their camera quality, released a SDK that was focused on images. Then lets imagine they released it for free. Finally that you can use it on any Windows Phone 8 device, not just theirs.

A couple of days ago, Nokia announced their new Lumia phone, Lumia 1020, that features a powerful 41 MP camera sensor. letting you shoot photos in incredible details, or as they’ve put it, “shoot first, zoom later” (nods to Lytro, I guess). Of course that kind of beast would require some serious needs for editing photos, taken by those lenses (there’s 6 in Lumia 1020 to be exact), and as it just happens, Nokia yesterday also released their Imaging SDK that allows Windows Phone (8) developers to create apps that manipulate pictures by applying various filters, resizing, etc. An SDK, that, if you will, will let you develop your next best-to Instagram app.

What can the Nokia Imaging SDK do?

The main feature of the SDK are 50+ image filters with adjustable settings, that you can apply to any image. The filters are listed here. Besides filters, there are APIs for manipulating images, like resizing, cropping and rotating.

Where do I find It?

Nokia Imaging SDK is freely downloadable from here. The SDK is free to use, but check the license here. You can skip the publisher entry form by clicking the “No thanks” button, but if you’re already a Windows Phone publisher, you can leave your publisher details to increase the chance Nokia spotting your next great app featuring their imaging SDK

Installing the SDK will get you a local version of Nokia’s libraries, as well as a demo / sample project.

Note that you can also totally skip installing the SDK manually and rather pull the required libraries into existing projects through NuGet (always a good option).

...

Design

Filter Explorer opens up into a mosaic style photo stream of user's Camera Roll photos. Photos in photo stream are filtered, each photo with one random filter, and the photos rotate in a quick pace revealing the same photo rendered with another randomly selected filter again and again.

Selecting a photo directly from the stream or by using the gallery picker or camera capture button takes the user to the main photo editing page. On this page tapping on the plus sign takes the user to a filter selection page. Selecting a filter takes the user back to the main photo editing page with the newly selected filter applied to the photo. Multiple filters can be stacked on top of each other again by tapping on the plus sign, and the "Applied filters" indicator in the top of the screen displays the currently applied filters.

Implementation

Architecture overview

Here's a class diagram showing the overall structure of the application. Notice that only the most relevant attributes, methods and relations are depicted here.

...

He provides a great hands on to get you started fresh;

Hands-on

I’ve created a new Windows Phone 8 project from scratch, using the installed libraries. There are some manual steps to take when adding references and I trust these will be addressed in the forthcoming releases. You can review these steps for both manual and NuGet install here.

What I wanted to try for this post, was a few simple tasks: take the photo, apply one of the photo filters, crop the image and save it to the library.

And implementing them was quite straightforward.

...

He closes with a summary that says it all...

Sounds fun, should I use it?

Nokia’s Imaging SDK is mostly valuable for its collection of filters, but it also takes the additional complexity away from working with compressed image files so it’s definitely worth looking at it.

And if you come up with a cool idea for an app that could make use of this SDK, don’t forget to enter the Nokia Future Capture competition (closes July 31st 2013).

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Imaging-images-with-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDKLast week we highlighted a series of posts related to manipulating images, Becoming an Image Ninja with help from Dewald Esterhuizen. Today we continue with that theme, but move to the Windows Phone world and to an SDK that makes image tweaking much, much simpler... Lets imagine a major (to say the least) Windows Phone hardware and software manufacture, who's know for their camera quality, released a SDK that was focused on images. Then lets imagine they released it for free. Finally that you can use it on any Windows Phone 8 device, not just theirs. Imagine no more! Today post comes via Andrej Tozon where he gets... Starting with Nokia Imaging SDKA couple of days ago, Nokia announced their new Lumia phone, Lumia 1020, that features a powerful 41 MP camera sensor. letting you shoot photos in incredible details, or as they’ve put it, “shoot first, zoom later” (nods to Lytro, I guess). Of course that kind of beast would require some serious needs for editing photos, taken by those lenses (there’s 6 in Lumia 1020 to be exact), and as it just happens, Nokia yesterday also released their Imaging SDK that allows Windows Phone (8) developers to create apps that manipulate pictures by applying various filters, resizing, etc. An SDK, that, if you will, will let you develop your next best-to Instagram app. What can the Nokia Imaging SDK do?The main feature of the SDK are 50&#43; image filters with adjustable settings, that you can apply to any image. The filters are listed here. Besides filters, there are APIs for manipulating images, like resizing, cropping and rotating. ... Here's a peek at all the filters, Nokia Imaging SDK - Filters and effects Auto Enhance, Auto Levels, Blend, Blur, Brightness, Cartoon, Color Adjust, Color Boost, Colorization, Color Swap, Contrast, Crop, Curves, Despeckle, Emboss, Exposure, Flip, Fog, Foundation, Frame, Free Rotation, Grayscale, Grayscale Negative, Hue Saturation, Image Fusion, Levels, Local Boost, Lomo, Magic Pen, Milky, Mirror, Mono Cohttps://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Imaging-images-with-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK
Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:00:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Imaging-images-with-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDKGreg DuncanGreg Duncan0https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Imaging-images-with-the-Nokia-Imaging-SDK/RSSC#Coding4FunNokiaimage manipulationImage ProcessingTWC9: Reactive for Python and Ruby, Anders on C#, Gestalt Laws and moreThis week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-166-Facebook-Graph-Search-WP8-Nominated-Nokia-Drive-Microsoft-loves-the-90sJoin in the fun and help us create buzz worthy conversations...here's what happened this week: Facebook Graph Search [05:11] Windows Phone nominated for Design Award [14:43] Nokia DRIVE [11:25] Microsoft loves the '90's [16:28] Thoughts on the MYTHLY site??? It's all about the cheevos...or is it? 1357https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-166-Facebook-Graph-Search-WP8-Nominated-Nokia-Drive-Microsoft-loves-the-90s
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:18:55 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-166-Facebook-Graph-Search-WP8-Nominated-Nokia-Drive-Microsoft-loves-the-90sLaura FoyLaura Foy15https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-166-Facebook-Graph-Search-WP8-Nominated-Nokia-Drive-Microsoft-loves-the-90s/RSSadBingFacebookMicrosoftNokiaPingShowWindows PhoneawardsWindows Phone 8Ping 137: Kinect illusionist, Kintext, R.I.P. XP, Lumias!We got a new set! Well, sorta. We virtually got a new set. We definitely got a new VIRTUAL set Regardless, we are fans...let us know what you think! Here are the top stories this week:

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-136-Windows-Phone-update-School-for-Apps-I-am-Paul-Allen-Micrsoft-is-mega-coolThis week we are joined by the evil mastermind, Clint Rutkas, to share his insights on all the hot stories. Samplings include: Windows Phone SDK update [02:46] 24M$ App Development Program [08:23] Paul Allen Identity Theft [04:32] Microsoft is hip, duh. [11:06] 849https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-136-Windows-Phone-update-School-for-Apps-I-am-Paul-Allen-Micrsoft-is-mega-cool
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:31:26 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-136-Windows-Phone-update-School-for-Apps-I-am-Paul-Allen-Micrsoft-is-mega-coolLaura FoyLaura Foy6https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-136-Windows-Phone-update-School-for-Apps-I-am-Paul-Allen-Micrsoft-is-mega-cool/RSSIdentityNokiaPaul AllenWindows PhoneAppsuniversityAlignIT Manager Tech Talk: Your Enterprise On the GoWindows Phone goes beyond email and calendaring to deliver productivity to the enterprise. Mobile access to corporate applications like Office and SharePoint come out of the box, but line of business can be extended to the phone using skills and tools your infrastructure and developer teams already have. Ruth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit, and guest Paul Laberge, Developer Advisor at Microsoft Canada and Windows Phone expert discuss how you can leverage Windows Phone to extend your applications and enable a mobile workforce.

Resources

See it for yourself. Download the SDKs, samples, documentation, videos, and more.

To learn more about Windows Phone, deeper content, etc, check out TechDays Online.

Learn more about Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and download the Release Candidate for evaluation.

Featured Guest: Paul Laberge

Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 12 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for almost 5 years. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions. Currently, Paul leads Microsoft's developer engagement around Windows Phone 7 and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, speaking at events, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps. Paul is also passionate about Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences.

The AlignITManager Talk is a monthly live streamed video series hosted by Ruth Morton (LinkedIn) and Jonathan Rozenblit (LinkedIn). Each Tech Talk episode airs on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 12:00pm to 12:30pm EST. The show focuses on a range of topics for both infrastructure and development managers and is interactive, taking questions via a live chat and providing answers on air

About AlignIT

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]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AlignIT/alignitshowep9Windows Phone goes beyond email and calendaring to deliver productivity to the enterprise. Mobile access to corporate applications like Office and SharePoint come out of the box, but line of business can be extended to the phone using skills and tools your infrastructure and developer teams already have. Ruth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit, and guest Paul Laberge, Developer Advisor at Microsoft Canada and Windows Phone expert discuss how you can leverage Windows Phone to extend your applications and enable a mobile workforce. Resources See it for yourself. Download the SDKs, samples, documentation, videos, and more. To learn more about Windows Phone, deeper content, etc, check out TechDays Online. Learn more about Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and download the Release Candidate for evaluation. Featured Guest: Paul Laberge Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 12 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for almost 5 years. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions. Currently, Paul leads Microsoft's developer engagement around Windows Phone 7 and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, speaking at events, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps. Paul is also passionate about Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences. Podcast This episode is also available as a podcast. Listen Now &gt;&gt;Download as MP3 &gt;&gt; Subscribe with Zune &gt;&gt; Subscribe with RSS Feed &gt;&gt;Subscribe with iTunes &gt;&gt; About AlignIT Manager Tech Talk The AlignIT Manager Talk is a monthly lihttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AlignIT/alignitshowep9
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:07:49 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AlignIT/alignitshowep9Ruth Morton, Jonathan RozenblitRuth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit0https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AlignIT/alignitshowep9/RSSNokiaSecurityTechDaysWindows PhoneWindows Phone 7EnterpriseSystem Center Configuration ManagerSoundtracker Builds Global Geosocial Music Service on Multiple Platforms including Windows Azure and Windows Phone 7Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, a Microsoft BizSpark One company, discusses with Zhiming Xue the enabling technologies behind their geosocial music service Soundtracker. The free global geosocial internet radio service, which currently supports smartphone and web users with 12 million songs in 10 languages, helps users discover, share and play in real-time their favorite music with friends and anybody nearby. With demos on a Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone, Daniele discusses their mobile-first strategy that focuses on smartphone users, their support for multiple mobile platforms including Windows Phone 7, and several key location aware and social music sharing capabilities of the service. He then explains the high-level architecture for the music service - how Amazon AWS is used to support the infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Azure powers the instant and predictive search function, and how data is managed in the backend and delivered to users. He talks about how HTML5 is used to provide optimized user experience to web users with Microsoft IE 9 and Google Chrome. Finally, Daniele shares their plan to extend the global music service to Windows 8 and XBOX Live users. You can follow Soundtracker at facebook and twitter.

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/Soundtracker-Builds-Global-Geosocial-Music-Service-on-Multiple-Platforms-including-Windows-Azure-andDaniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, a Microsoft BizSpark One company, discusses with Zhiming Xue the enabling technologies behind their geosocial music service Soundtracker. The free global geosocial internet radio service, which currently supports smartphone and web users with 12 million songs in 10 languages, helps users discover, share and play in real-time their favorite music with friends and anybody nearby. With demos on a Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone, Daniele discusses their mobile-first strategy that focuses on smartphone users, their support for multiple mobile platforms including Windows Phone 7, and several key location aware and social music sharing capabilities of the service. He then explains the high-level architecture for the music service - how Amazon AWS is used to support the infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Azure powers the instant and predictive search function, and how data is managed in the backend and delivered to users. He talks about how HTML5 is used to provide optimized user experience to web users with Microsoft IE 9 and Google Chrome. Finally, Daniele shares their plan to extend the global music service to Windows 8 and XBOX Live users. You can follow Soundtracker at facebook and twitter. For developers, you can download Windows Phone development tools and Windows Azure SDK, and get a free Windows Azure trial account. Tags: Soundtracker, Geo Social Music, Nokia Lumia 800, HTML5, Internet Explorer 9, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows 8, XBOX Live 616https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/Soundtracker-Builds-Global-Geosocial-Music-Service-on-Multiple-Platforms-including-Windows-Azure-and
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:51 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/Soundtracker-Builds-Global-Geosocial-Music-Service-on-Multiple-Platforms-including-Windows-Azure-andzhimingzhiming0https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/Soundtracker-Builds-Global-Geosocial-Music-Service-on-Multiple-Platforms-including-Windows-Azure-and/RSSAzureHTML 5HTML5Internet Explorer 9NokiaWindows AzureWindows PhoneXbox LiveWindows 8Ping 126: Windows Phone Demo, Nokia Lumia launch, FPS & Kinect shoot back, NeverWet!There's never a dull moment at Microsoft- Laura and Paul pay attention to all the buzz and bring it to you each week. Here's the latest happenings: